The fire protection and security industry is a part of Quicksilver’s strongest area of specialisation. This is largely due to our President’s experience of more than 30 years in international management positions in this industry. As Tyco International’s former Global Director of Marketing and Communications, Colin has unmatched, first-hand experience of the issues and challenges […]

Here is an example of the importance of establishing – and sticking to – terminological preferences. A client with whom we have been working for some time had specified that they wanted the English word container to be translated as Behälder. This was in the context of technical documents, hence the importance of a consistent […]

The fire protection and security industry is now Quicksilver’s strongest area of specialisation. This is largely due to our President’s experience of more than 30 years in international management positions in this industry. As Tyco International’s former Global Director of Marketing and Communications, Colin has unmatched, first-hand experience of the issues and challenges of producing […]

As regular readers of this blog will be aware, the difference – or lack thereof – between European and Latin American Spanish is a vexed issue. We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: there is such a thing as neutral Spanish, just as there is a more-or-less neutral, international English.